Today we crammed into Jack White’s Third Man Records Booth & recorded an original tune on a 1947 Voice-o-Graph machine that presses directly to vinyl ⚡️🎤⚡️ Neil Young recorded his album, “A Letter Home,” in this booth 👌🏼

Ripped Off Again or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Hate Discogs. Lets start by saying I don't hate Discogs it's self but rather the degenerate marketplace of sellers on it. I've had only ONE deal that was honest and fair, whereas all the rest I have been blatantly lied to, put at a loss and treated unfairly. This month has been the pinnacle, three transactions in a row that have been terrible. First one (pictured) was listed as VG+, thing came dog-eared, dirty, not even an inner sleeve, had bad scratches, speckles of something adhered to the disc and skipped like crazy! Not even G! And Discogs clearly outlines the criteria of each grading for all sellers to adhere to. The seller gives me some BS logic that it is because of the price he sold it for..? WTF, non-sequitur, condition is NOT affected by price. I explained he was not making the marketplace, safe, fair or informed for the buyer! I mail the record back to the seller, who now claims to have never received it...wow! Out $50 now.

Second purchase was a really nice first pressing... Upon receiving the record it was blatantly noticeable that it was not even close to a first pressing from 67', but rather an early 80's 8th repressing! Again the differences were vast and Discogs outlines these differences throughly. Was really disappointed, another pending return to hope goes well, while I'm out $80 and will probably never recoup shipping. Lastly bought another long sought-after record, did all my due diligence, asked tons of questions, seller claimed it was VG+, no skips, no pops. Received it on Friday, noticed immediately it had a bad needle drop scratch across one full song (the quietest cut too) and resulted in loud pops every revolution throughout! Surface noise was terrible during entire playback and side two was unbearable, concerning rather... followed by two skips halfway through. Another record not even close to VG+, actually G- following guidelines. ANOTHER pending return, out $92.

Starting to feel the record and Discogs market has become degenerate and dishonest.